Mooching

Word MOOCHING
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Definitions and meanings of "Mooching"

What do we mean by mooching?

To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others.

To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain.

To steal or filch.

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The word "mooching" in example sentences

These payments are not controversial and do not fall under the rubric of 'mooching.' ❋ Laura Vanderkam (2012)

According to Henry Miller, who calls it "mooching," when performed without squeamishness or reservations, cadging is both exhilarating and instructive. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Omer...there is a big gap between "mooching" and a legit social safety net. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unlike the other squirrels who hang around here, she doesn't come running when I make my squirrel "mooching" sound - they know that's the signal for food. ❋ Jan (2008)

What's up with that -- you think of a veteran and 20+ year US Senator, who almost made his wife First Lady of the US, like he's some kind of mooching slacker? ❋ Unknown (2005)

Christian selected the oldest and least promising of the Cluhir matrons for her special attention, and made herself so agreeable to her, that Barty Mangan, "mooching" (as his mother afterwards reproached him) solitary, in the rear of the procession, found himself in the remarkable position of wishing that he were his own great-aunt, ❋ Martin Ross (1888)

Many say the term "mooching" was created by Japanese American immigrants sometime in the ❋ Unknown (2010)

If anything, she somewhat idolized manual labor and simple blue-collar competence, and the super-rich Galt-types in her books often took such jobs to show that it was productivity vs. "mooching" that was her beef, not elevating the rich over the poor. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And as for "mooching" by eating out of dumpsters and finding useable goods in the waste stream, what more elegant solution to our profligate living and abundant generation of waste than for a subculture of scatophagenous individuals to consume our refuse? ❋ Unknown (2009)

On former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain 'mooching' around his home ❋ Unknown (2009)

Well had a day "mooching" round Luxor before I embarked on my bus journey to Dahab, in the Red Sea, apparently a sea side area which is a bit quieter than Sharm al Sheik. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Politicians actually keep their campaign promises without sticking to the general taxpaying (or mooching off the taxpayers) public? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Prime real estate, yet nearly bankrupt due to all of the latinos/mexicans here illegally and mooching off the government and white people. ❋ Unknown (2010)

At the same time, irresponsible, indolent, and improvident parasites just keep hanging out in the social safety hammock, mooching their "entitlements." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Same with carfree people ... at some point you're gonna be mooching rides. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Not some Goober Smootcher only prior experience was flipping hamburgers and still living mooching off there Parents! ❋ Unknown (2010)

By now, like me, you are no doubt sick of the "teetotal January" brigade, mooching about with sachets of moon tea in their pockets, setting their Twitter to automatically update how many kilometres they've staggered, standing by your desk, pulling at the waistband of their newly slack trousers like a demented Weight Watchers success story. ❋ Unknown (2012)

All of these unemployed tea baggers need to stop mooching off of the government, no more unemployment checks for you!!! ❋ Unknown (2010)

And so are their followers; idiots who believe such nonsense as President Obama was born in Kenya; idiots who compare health care reform to Hitler's "final solution;" idiots who believe anything that Limprick or Fox tells them; idiots who think a quitter/lying/mooching airhead from Alaska could possible be president. ib ❋ Unknown (2009)

You (hopefully) can't inject the gooey center of yourself into your neighbor and take over his brain, but you can take the story of the sacculina as a parable showing you how mooching should be done. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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